A Viking 72 built in January 2019 for model year 2019, documented as Scup Slayer out of Naples, Florida. She took the Mongo Offshore Challenge's East Coast bigeye category in 2022 with a 204 lb fish and topped its yellowfin leaderboard in 2024, the year she served as a platform for The Billfish Foundation's Skillie Project, satellite-tagging white marlin off southeastern New England.
Her story, name by name
- Undated
Scup SlayerCurrent
Confirmed · USCG documented-vessel file, 2023-01 to 2026-09, ON 1313989, marlinmag.com, billfish.org
- July 2022
Tournament
2022 Mongo Offshore Challenge, East Coast Division: first in the bigeye tuna category with a 204 lb fish weighed during the Oak Bluffs Bluewater Classic out of Cape Cod in July; $8,925. Captain Rob Goodwin.
Reported · marlinmag.com
- 2024
Tournament
Mongo Offshore Challenge, East Coast Division: top of the yellowfin tuna leaderboard with a 113-pound fish, $5,950. Captain Rob Goodwin.
Reported · marlinmag.com
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Coverage
SistersOther Viking 72s, then 2019 builds
- Reely DudeNo. 72-619 · 722018
What A Countrylaunched as Rais N Cain · 4 names since 2017No. 72-605 · 722017- Deadicatedlaunched as Gulf Bender · 2 names since 2022No. 72-653 · 722022
- C-StudentNo. 72-659 · 722023
- Tortalaunched as Backlash · 2 names since 2023No. 72-660 · 722023
- Reel Developmentlaunched as Bidtime · 2 names since 2023No. 72-661 · 722023
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